| Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1855 - 596 páginas
...manner/ They went as a party to dine on a cold loaf, and passed the day. Lady A. protests he never opened his lips but once, and then only said, " Yes, my lady, 1 believe so." — See Walpole's Letter to G Montagu, p 199. f Lord Holland in a few words drew the... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1857 - 552 páginas
...travelling, I think they cannot do it in a more commodious method. I agree with you most absolutely in_your opinion about Gray: he is the worst company in the world. From a melancholy turn, from living rcclusely, and from a little too much dignity, he never converses easily; all his words are measured... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1857 - 360 páginas
...his manner. They went a party to dine on a cold loaf, and passed the day. Lady A. protests he never opened his lips but once, and then only said, ' Yes, my Lady, I believe so.' "I Dr. Beattie 'writes,* " Gray's letters very much resemble what his conversation was. He had none of... | |
| Charles Knight - 1859 - 604 páginas
...the fame of Gray as a poet ; yet, while Gray was alive, Walpole thus described his conversation : ' I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about...living reclusely, and from a little too much dignity, ho never converses easily ; all his words are measured ami chosen, and formed into sentences : his... | |
| Charles Knight - 1859 - 600 páginas
...Walpolo thus described his conversation : ' I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion abotit Gray ; he is the worst company in the world. From...reclusely, and from a little too much dignity, he never converses easily ; all his words are measured and chosen, and formed into sentences : his writings... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1861 - 660 páginas
...new road is become an old one." Mr. Mason has added, from his own knowledge, that though Gray 15 " I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about...reclusely, and from a little too much dignity, he never converses easily : all his words are measured and chosen, and formed into sentences : his writings... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1861 - 554 páginas
...anybody that proposes marrying and travelling, I think they cannot do it in a more commodious method. I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about...from living reclusely, and from a little too much dignify, he never converses easily ; all his words are measured and chosen, and formed into sentences... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1861 - 552 páginas
...anybody that proposes marrying and travelling, I think they cannot do it in a more commodious method. I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about...in the world. From a melancholy turn, from living rcclusely, and from a little too much dignity, he never converses easily; all his words arc measured... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1863 - 304 páginas
...manner. They went on a party to dine on a cold loaf, and passed the day. Lady A. protests he never opened his lips but once, and then only said, 'Yes, my lady, I believe so ' " Mr. Nicholls, who made a tour with him, as has been mentioned, the year before his death, says,... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1866 - 298 páginas
...that it seemed unnatural, though only pure English." And in a letter to George Montague, he writes, " I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about...reclusely, and from a little too much dignity : he never converses easily ; all his words are measured and chosen, and formed into sentences." Arid again ;... | |
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